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Why did Louis XVI ascended The Throne of France

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On May 10, 1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.

In 1775 Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured Ft. Ticonderoga in New York from the British.

In 1869 a golden spike was driven into a rail tie at Promontory, Utah, completing the first transcontinental railroad.

In 1894 two 10-foot bronze lions were unveiled in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.





In 1899 Frederick Austerlitz, who became actor-dancer Fred Astaire, was born in Omaha.

In 1924 J. Edgar Hoover was named director of the FBI. He retained the post until his death in 1972.

In 1933 20,000 books were thrown into a bonfire in Berlin in the first of the Nazis' book burnings.

In 1968 preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.

In 1975 a federal judge ordered a new integration plan requiring busing of nearly one-third of the children in Boston's schools.

In 1979, after a long battle, the House rejected President Jimmy Carter's request for standby authority to ration gasoline.

In 1980 the government gave conditional approval to $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees to the financially ailing Chrysler Corp.

In 1981 Socialist Francois Mitterrand was elected president of France.

In 1984 a federal judge in Utah found the U.S. government negligent in conducting above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada from 1951 to 1961 that exposed the public to cancer-inducing radiation.

In 1997 at least 2,400 people died as an earthquake wiped out hundreds of villages in northeastern Iran.

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